Obviously we only have a surface-level and outside understanding of what’s going on, but from how I’m reading this it seems like it might be the case that this young dev is highly protective of a project that understandably is very personal to him, and when the publisher didn’t treat it with the utmost reverence he…

I mean, good luck to Microsoft, considering CoD’s longstanding and complete disregard for respecting our hard drives with ridiculous install sizes. But more importantly, I hope this hearkens a return to the old days of Nintendo third party games with exclusive content, such as when Mario and Luigi joined in on NBA…

I completely agree that P5 and the series as a whole desperately needs to branch out and be more inclusive. However, I'm currently replaying P5R and have nearly finished Ryuji's confidant arc, and all of this is a stretch. As others have more eloquently put it, there's nothing wrong with having two male friends open…

Uhh...strange that the mods banned him for trying to enrich himself through the sub that largely existed as an effort to enrich users. (I know it’s all in the details, I just think in broad strokes it’s ironic and hypocritical).

I had your same experience, while also feeling like the physics are super wonky. Smash Bros endures for many reasons, but one is that the game feel and physics are tight and predictable - if I get launched and need to quickly get back on stage, I instantly have a great sense of momentum and what needs to be done. This…

I have a deep love for Baten Kaitos ever since I played them as a teen when they first came out. I own them on Gamecube and have been slowly replaying them over the past year or so (gaming with a toddler is tough) and they have aged incredibly well. The illustrated backgrounds are gorgeous, the menus and portraits are…

I mean...yeah, obviously? There’s always overlap in game releases between generations. The PS5 and Xbox Series have just recently started to break out from cross-generation releases. The 3ds was still somehow having major-ish releases for a while after the Switch released and was incredibly popular. I’d guess the…

Legend of Zelda: Nuts and Bolts

I think it’s okay to bring up some concerns as recent titles have been struggling on the old hardware, but I agree there’s no way that’s the case here. Plus I think it’s been confirmed that Monolith is helping quite a bit with ToTK, and they’re wizards with the Switch hardware. No way this is a Scarlet / Violet…

I also wonder if that’s voice acting purely for the trailer? It did feel very out of place / tacked on, like they tried the trailer without it and realized that you would have no idea who the villain is for most of it (the moon???) or who the “him” Zelda mentioned was, and they still want to mostly obscure the…

What an absolute journey. 

A lot of weirdly strong defenses of two insanely large corporate entities merging into a much large corporate entity with very little benefit to actual users in these comments...

Nintendo is very skittish about releasing games within the same series close to new release dates, as they seem to think the classics might cannibalize some new sales, so I doubt we’d get a Zelda port three months before a massive new release.

There are entire swaths of the internet that apparently live in a massive bubble and haven’t played a game that actually looks and performs bad in years, and it really shows. The Kotaku Forspoken review compared parts of it to a shoddy PS3 game, and let me tell you, as someone who’s recently gone into a deep PS3…

Enjoy this new grand adventure as Cassie Drake, taking on the mantle from her parents as she travels the world to exotic locales...to apologize for her family’s role in destroying countless priceless historical sites and convincing wealthy investors to donate the funds to restore them. Only on PS5!

Referring to women as “females” is like the free space on a MRA / incel bingo card. It’s fucking weird and gross, and a dead giveaway that they don’t see women even remotely as equals.

I haven’t played Snap in a month or so, so I’m a bit out of the loop. However, when I was playing regularly I appreciated the randomness and chaos of these weird zones that really make you experiment to deal with them. Without the chaos, it felt easy to fall into strategic ruts with a 12-card deck, which really…

I’ll acknowledge that the original was interesting and creative and important, particularly for having a strong female lead in the early ‘00s (peak years of gaming being aimed at the teenage boy demographic). As you’ve said, I think the window for releasing a sequel that anyone has cared about has long passed, even if…

Lone designer toiling away at BGE2 in a dark basement storage room, hearing the announcement ringing through the floorboards above: “My god, they do remember I exist...”

Uh, so if you can’t breed the Charizard you can only get from these events, how is the mystery trade full of lv 1 Charmanders? (I haven’t been motivated enough to get to the point where I can do these high level raids, so that’s how I got my Charizard) I’m assuming the same thing will happen after this event too.